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Travel Tip: LEED Certified Wineries Spawn New Generation of Green Wine

Wine bottle glassYou’ve heard of green hotels, green airlines, and maybe even green cruises. Now they’ve got something called green wineries.

If a winery has been awarded LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, you know it’s doing something right.

Stratus Vineyard in Ontario is the first LEED-certified building in Canada.

They incorporate features like geothermal heating and cooling, and rely on old methods like using gravity flow to process grapes instead of energy-consuming conveyer belts.

Oregon’s Stoller Family Vineyards uses similar techniques, and became the first LEED gold-certified winery in the United States.

In Mendocino, California, Parducci Wine Cellars is the first carbon-neutral winery in the U.S.

That’s because they rely entirely on solar and wind power.

Besides that, they grow organic grapes and use biodiesel tractors in the field.

All right, they’re all green wineries, now let’s just hope the wine tastes good…but that’s up to you.

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